POLIO RESEARCH
BIG ADVANCE MADE (P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Poliomyelitis research has made great advances recently, especially in the United States, said Professor F. M. Burnett, who reached Auckland in the Aorangi last night on his way home to Australia from England and America. Professor Burnett, who is director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, said that certain new lines of research gave reaeon for “considerable hope” that something could be done to beat this disease. He said that one of the most interesting laboratory researches made recently was that by Dr. John F. Enders, of Boston, who had grown a polio virus in tissue culture. “This / suggests,” Professor Burnett added, “that it may be possible to find a less expensive way of studying the polio virus than the present use of monkeys in experiments.” While in the United Kingdom Professor Burnett gave several important lectures, including the Moynihan lecture to the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 36, 22 November 1950, Page 4
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